Teams have three shots to get their pumpkin the as far away as possible, with last year's winner taking out the top prize thanks to a killer toss of more than 1.3 kilometres with a cannon.

But it wasn't just the pumpkins that copped it, with a special exhibition at the event seeing the machine launch a boat, grand piano, Volkswagen Beetle and 500 gallon water barrels into the air, as you do.